hdf_get_node(3)

💖 hdf_get_node(3) 💖

okay bestie, so this is hdf_get_node from util/neo_hdf.h — ClearSilver's little "just build it for me" function. she's giving manifestation: you ask for a node, and if it's not there, she simply creates it. periodt. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

hdf_get_node — literally like hdf_get_obj except all the nodes get created if they don't exist. no cap.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <util/neo_hdf.h>

NEOERR * hdf_get_node (HDF *hdf, const char *name, HDF **ret);

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• hdf — the dataset node you start walking from. your home base, your origin story 🫶
• name — the name you're walking to. the path, the journey, the destination 💅

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so hdf_get_node is basically hdf_get_obj's bolder cousin. the difference? instead of stopping the second she can't find a node in the tree (so dramatic, so fragile 😭), she just… creates all of the nodes necessary to hand you back the node you asked for.

the way that she builds the whole path for you and then gives you the node?? main character energy fr fr. 👑

heads up bestie: nodes are created with no value. so like, they exist, they're real, they're valid — they're just empty inside. vibe check: empty but present. we've all been there 🙈

⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

• ret — the dataset node you asked for. she said "here you go, girl" and handed it to you 🎁

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

bestie the whole friend group showed up, look at this guest list:

hdf_set_symlink(3), hdf_get_valuef(3), compareFunc)(3), hdf_dump_str(3), hdf_get_int_value(3), hdf_read_string_ignore(3), hdf_copy(3), hdf_get_node(3), hdf_set_value(3), hdf_obj_child(3), hdf_read_string(3), hdf_set_buf(3), hdf_register_fileload(3), hdf_get_obj(3), hdf_get_attr(3), hdf_obj_top(3), hdf_dump_format(3), hdf_destroy(3), hdf_init(3), hdf_obj_value(3), hdf_write_string(3), hdf_set_valuevf(3), hdf_sort_obj(3), hdf_write_file_atomic(3), hdf_obj_attr(3), hdf_set_valuef(3), hdf_get_copy(3), hdf_write_file(3), hdf_get_valuevf(3), hdf_set_int_value(3), hdf_dump(3), hdf_get_value(3), hdf_set_copy(3), hdf_obj_next(3), hdf_search_path(3), hdf_obj_name(3), hdf_set_attr(3), hdf_get_child(3), hdf_remove_tree

and that's the whole page, angel 💖 go forth and let her build you a tree. iykyk ✨

this was ClearSilver, dated 12 July 2007 — vintage but she still ate, fr fr 🎀🦋